A female student enrolled at the Uganda Christian University (UCU) is nursing gunshot wounds at a hospital in Uganda after she was allegedly shot by a policeman whose door she attempted to open mistaking it for her boyfriend’s.
According to Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesgyire Natasha Nagayi, 21, was shot in the wee hours of Saturday morning when the officer saw someone attempting to open his front door.
Spokesperson Owoyesgyire said that the 57-year-old officer Dismas Tebangole first peeped through a window when she saw Nagayi inserting a key inside his door’s keyhole, prompting him to open fire.
“In a state of suspicion, the officer discharged three live bullets through the window glass, hitting Nagayi Natasha on the right chest, near the lower armpit,” he said as quoted by The Monitor.
“Upon being shot, the victim fell to the ground and cried out for help, asserting that she was not a thief. She specifically mentioned the name Bandishe Ashraf, one of the tenants residing in the suspect’s residence. The caretaker of the residence, Ssengendo Hanington, along with other neighbors, responded to the scene.”
“Subsequently, the suspect (police officer) emerged from his residence.”
According to her boyfriend Ashraf Bandishe, they had gone out for a night out when the victim asked for his house keys to go rest as he remained behind. His apartment is opposite officer Tebangole’s.
Bandishe said that the victim stays in the school hostel and since it was too late for her to return to the institution, she asked if she could spend the night at his house.
“Yesterday was her first time to stay outside for long. She resides in a university hall which is closed by midnight so she requested my house keys to go and rest since I was still drinking. I directed her and the boda boda guy to the purple apartments but they went to a wrong place,” he told The Monitor.
